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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2011-02-26 02:36
It isn't very professional. Bad form past second year of playing in grade school bands. If you must do it, just move your toe(s) within your shoe.
Jeff
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Author: davyd
Date: 2011-02-26 04:32
I'll condone, if I must, it as long as it's synchronized with what we're playing. Out-of-sync foot tapping is about the worst non-sonic error a musician can make.
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Author: davetrow
Date: 2011-02-26 05:32
As long as it doesn't make any sound (leave that to the percussionists), and I can't see it, I don't care. I agree with JJ's comment: easy enough to do it inside your shoe--and I admit, I still need to do it from time to time.
There is, however, one problem with foot-tapping tolerance. In one community band I play in, we rehearse on a concrete floor, but often play concerts on wood dance floors or stages. What is soundless on concrete sounds like the Russian army on maneuvers on a sprung wooden floor.
Dave Trowbridge
Boulder Creek, CA
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2011-02-26 12:49
Re "out of sync" foot tapping: some people feel the beat in the beginning of the motion, and others at the end when contact with the floor is made. So I think it is possible for a band to be performing in time while appearing to be a disaster.
Since rhythm is a construct of the mind, and the individual in question is already directing their foot to keep time, they could (and should) be directing that energy/thought musically.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: PrincessJ
Date: 2011-02-26 14:22
Tap the foot if you're rhythmically challenged during scales, warm-ups, etc, to build a feel for rhythm. However I do not advise it to be done in an ensemble.
-Jenn
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-02-26 14:53
JJAlbrecht wrote:
> If you must do it, just move your toe(s) within your shoe.
That's why one shouldn't wear sandals (or peep toes for the ladies) to a performance. ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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Ben
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-02-26 14:57
Oh, there's an even better reason for not wearing sandals into a crowded pit: great big men clumping around in their great big clodhoppers and not looking where they're going, and women wearing stiletto heels and not looking where they're going, either. Owie!
Lelia
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2011-02-26 17:40
I tap my foot a lot; it helps me play correctly - toes don't do it. Sometimes in chamber groups someone will complain that my foot tapping throws them off. I politely explain that at times I don't follow my foot so why should they.
I often tap my foot when listening to music. Foot tapping is not professional but neither am I.
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2011-02-27 15:03
I recommend variable foot tapping. Just as you don't play at one mf dynamic continuously, vary the tap. In rhythmic music such as marches you can employ a solid tap. In very legato lyrical music employ a corresponding tap....smaller and smooth (perhaps a toe tap is good here). You could go further than the toe tap.....namely "internal pulse" and this would be good also. Let your tapping mirror the beating motion that a conductor might use. I also like to alternate left and right foot tapping. This coincides nicely with a 4/4 meter(left,right,left, right), Another tap possibility is to tap only 1 and 3 , only 1, 2and 4(jazz maybe) All these give a different feel for the musical line and can ground the musical line. In a teaching situation I would have the student employ many of these techniques in one study just to give them alternatives that they can decide upon themselves.
Freelance woodwind performer
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2011-02-28 18:53
Kudos to Tony Pay for finding Heather Wastie! Thanks!
On a related note:
How much motion of the instrument is considered 'professional'? (Solo vs. ensemble).
And what about elbow flapping? :-D
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